Shifts in children's ear asymmetry during verbal and nonverbal auditory-visual association tasks: A "virtual stimulus" effect

Cortex

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 367-374

  Hiscock, Merrill ^a   Lin, Jenny ^a   Kinsbourne, Marcel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; EAR; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0029978579     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(96)80058-X     Document Type: Article

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